Land Challenges in Uganda

In Uganda there are various challenges on land which include the following;

  • Lack of clear of effective land policy has prevented the development of much of the land.
  • Political and ethnic tensions also create a challenge on land
  • Large tracks of land owned by individuals or organisations are idle or unutilized yet there are people who want land for development.
  • There a number of people who are landless.
  • Much of the land in northern Uganda is held under customary law with no registration of land boundaries and this has contributed to the disputes on Land
  • Most of land mass is inaccessible because it is gazetted as Government protected land.
  • There are nomadic herdsmen who do not have land for grazing.
  • Land in some parts of Uganda is fragmented in a way which make it uneconomic to develop

 

 

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